Word: gasperi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decisively. As the Communists, backed by their brethren from Moscow, took over Hungary's Government (see INTERNATIONAL), Secretary of State George Marshall promptly suspended the unused half of a whopping $30 million credit to Hungary. Then he gave cheer and congratulation to Italy's Premier Alcide de Gasperi, who had screwed up his courage to form a new government without benefit of Italian Communists...
...refused support by the Communist machine in local elections. All the fighting, for the present, will be done on the barricades of bureaucracy. Slovenly, shambling Mauro Scocci-maro, noted for his long, unwashed hair, dirty shirts and doctrinaire stubbornness, holds office as Minister of Finance; but when Premier de Gasperi drops him, Party Boss Togliatti does not even put up a fight. This is no time for unwashed comrades. Togliatti himself sets the fashion of what the well-dressed Communist will wear: a neat, double-breasted blue business suit...
Then two weeks ago came the electrifying news that the Communists in Rome had voted for the Lateran Pact. In Anticoli, Eugeni crowed cruelly, guffawed to speechless Don Vittorio: "Ha! Now you've got to work with me, just the way Togliatti has made De Gasperi work with him! Qui comando io!" In Roviano, wise old Scacchi said to his village priest, Don Mario Sargenti: "Now we must work together-I like all workers of the spade, you like all workers of the robe." This week in both towns another political party seems to be following the Socialists into...
Togliatti told the Assembly's Christian Democrats: "Sometimes you speak as if you were the only defenders of the freedom of Catholic conscience." Deftly, he picked up De Gasperi's statistics as proof that millions of "Catholics" vote with the Italian Communist Party (4,000,000 last June...
...Togliatti had a second motive. This had been a supreme opportunity to display himself as arbiter of Assembly decisions. The Kremlin's legate had proved to De Gasperi and the Christian Democrats that-alone-they could not carry off one of their most cherished objectives. Socialist Pietro Nenni, after a year of playing footie with the Communists, now knew that Togliatti could give him a splintering kick in the shins at will. If Nenni and his Socialists were ever to walk again, they might have to make peace with the disaffected Socialists of Giuseppe Saragat in a last, desperate...